Thursday, November 17, 2005

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I'm Nobody! Who are you?
Are you - Nobody - too?
Then there's a pair of us!
Don't tell! they'd advertise - you know!

How dreary - to be - Somebody!
How public - like a Frog -
To tell one's name - the livelong June -
To an admiring Bog!

-Emily Dickinson

1 comment:

claire marie said...

thats a good one. i wrote a poem once modeled after one of emily's. i just rediscovered it the other day. weird.